Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be impossible to determine the effectiveness of this new method of approach until Germany has responded to the advances of England and France. If she persists in adopting her present isolationist attitude, she will drive her former opponents to far closer ties than have yet been cemented. But if she is able to recognize that Messrs. Eden, Simon, Laval and Flandin are doing all in their power to prevent another armageddon, and are sincere in their desire to right some of the wrongs inflicted on her by the Versailles Treaty, the new diplomacy will be firmly entrenched...
...France Is Renewing!" In his approach to all problems the Premier wins esteem in France chiefly because his approach is so characteristically French. He is against mass production: "Our only export future is in supplying foreign countries with products of high quality, even though the price must also be high. . . . We do not desire to become, nor could we become, a nation of mass production and consequent cheap labor. That would be a step, or rather many steps backward!" M. Flandin feels that the genius of the French is as the World's elite workers, creators of the mode...
...collective farms and "share everything" (TIME, July 14, 1930). Over a third of all Soviet cattle were thus massacred or exported before Stalin realized his mistake, eased his pressure. Today, because pigs multiply faster than cattle, Soviet collectives are frantically breeding swine. Last week President Kalinin's nearest approach to admitting Dictator Stalin's mistake came when he observed: "The heavy bread consumption we are now experiencing indicates weakness in our livestock raising. However, pigs take the place of bread very well...
...Carlstrom of Chicago contributed a tear-gas gun which a woman may conceal beneath her skirt, ready for use at the approach of a molester. Miss Catherine A. Moran pulled up her dress to show how it was used...
...expected that Professor Llewellyn, an advocate of the "functional" rather than the "historical" approach to law study, will deal with the system of law training now used at Columbia, and discuss its advantages. Law instruction at Columbia, he maintains, is given from the point of view of practical relations with clients, whereas at Harvard, too much stress is placed on the growth of principles from the past. Following Professor Llewellyn's address, Professor Chafee will comment on his remarks...